Babar nice off drive off a decent good length Cummins’ ball. 

Plus a second one on the up - Babar is a class batter.

Kane Richardson displayed a funny front foot in his action at Bellerive in the Shield this season. 

He looked innocuous, like now, apart from the first ball when he induced an edge. 

He is only bowling at 128kph. 

NCN does not even play Shield! 

He looks a lot more threatening than Richardson though.

Richardson is getting good movement off the seam going into the batter. 

What a straight drive from Babar for 4!

Babar gone!

Pakistan 2-56 off 11 overs.

Aussie fielding is decidedly superior to Pakistan’s. 

finally a wicket

its been painful to watch at times how easy it seems for the batters

gee thats a gift

1 more wicket before 35th and we should have this

weird thing about the phases is if Pakistan get 1-55 off two of them and 2-55 off one of them then they win 2 and draw 1 phase yet are behind in the match at 4-165 after 30

I'd play 2 overs from smith here


he's a wicket taker and new batsmen might be reluctant to take risks

why would you bowl finch ahead of smith

how many wickets has carey missed?
I'd be surprised if he's an improvement over handscomb

seriously if Carey takes that wicket its probably the matchwinner

finch takes the wicket so we probably win from here

In t20 you almost always win if you take 3 in the first 10

in odi against any half decent total you almost always win if you take 4 in the first 35

nearly a runout

all 4 wickets were gifts really

Australia with a lot of luck so far

wicket seems harder to play on with the older ball for both teams

Australia almost certain from here

australia were pretty disciplined with their bowling

I'm amazed at how easy pakistan made their bowling look at some stages

Pitch getting harder and pakistan collapsing

credit to australia for having slips in even when Pakistan were looking comfortable

with only 4 wickets to take we may as well bowl out our strike bowlers

don't know why we are bowling out our 4th and 5th against the tail. Need to think about NRR

huge fightback from pakistan and some awful bowling from a few aussies

closer than it should have been when paki was six down

Australia's 3rd and 4rd bowlers need so much work

surprised the dorf hasnt had a chance

I think we need a specialist new ball bowler. Cummins is just as effective with the old ball and we have good new ball bowlers. Also I thought cummins and zampa had a good partnership going

australia just need to win 1 of their hard games against NZ, England and south africa to make the knockouts and not have a slip up against Bangladesh/Sri Lanka

all of oz's wins have been performances with the ball more than the bat and our 3rd and 4th bowlers look vulnerable. So really its been Starc and Cummins show. The one game they didn't fire we lost. If we could find just one more bowler to fire we look a lot better. Here's hoping the Dorf gets a shot

I’m assuming we lost? 

I’ve just got up. 

I think you are right about back up bowlers and Cummins is effective with the old ball anyway. 

We also dropped Zampa and did not select Lyon. 

Just before I went to bed Richardson got movement from the pitch and was unlucky not to take wickets.